Stocking-suspender



E. A. GOVER.

STOCKING SUSPENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYH. 1920.

Patented 0011251921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILY ANN GOVER, 0F EPPING, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

STOCKING-SUSPENDER.

Application filed May 14,

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EMILY ANN Govnn, subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Never Rest, Oxford street, Epping. near Sydney, New South WVales, Australia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stockingsuspenders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to suspenders for supporting stockings on the person.

It consists in a spring pinch grip adapted to embrace an outfolded or bunched portion of the stocking neck. This grip is constructed of wire and is supported by a hanging tape from a corset or waist band; it embraces an outfolded bunched edge of the stocking leg pinching and holding it frictionally in an open top slot like jaw in which it is embraced in such a way that not only is the stocking suspended but the stocking neck if slack may be drawn taut so that it will set close around the leg of the wearer with the loose bunched portion of the stocking neck held close to the leg. Furthermore, injury to the stocking fabric liable to cause tearing, ripping or laddering is avoided, as the stocking fabric is not held repeatedly in the same place, and the grip is not localized on a small area. A suspender according to the invention is illustrated in a perspective view in the accompanying drawing, A representing the top or welt collar of the stocking leg, B an out-folded bunched portion of said collar as it appears when embraced in the jaw portion of the grip. The grip is formed of a spring steel wire, preferably electro-plated to render it resistant to rusting. It comprises a pear shaped hanger loop comprising a resilient bow portion C-C which is loosely pendent from the lower end of a tape D and a stalk portion forming a jaw E contained between the stalk members FF which are approxi- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921. 1920. Serial No. 381,236.

placed to avoid chafing against loose clothing.

Sufficient clearance is provided in the open mouth H at the top of the jaw E to facilitate insertion and withdrawal of the stocking fold B. In the operation of fastening the stocking, said fold B is forced down into the jaw E thus spreading the members FF slightly apart, so that they pinch it or embrace it snficiently tightly to prove it from becoming released unless when positively forced out of the jaw E. In. the releasing operation the embraced fold B of the stocking is pushed upwardly out of the embrace of the members F-F, and it falls free when it passes into the open mouth of the jaw E.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A stocking suspender, comprising a single pear-shaped loop of steel spring wire having stalk portion and a resilient bow portion, the arms of the stalk portion being twisted vertically slightly more than a quarter turn with relation to the bow portion, whereby said resilien+ bow portion is brought into a plane approximately at right-angles to the plane of the larger portion of the loop.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

EMILY ANN GOVER. 

